Mexborough and Swinton Times March 16^th 1907

Denaby Visit Rotherham
County Unlucky to Lose

You have read of teams full clever, you have seen them play the game,
the glorious game of football, to achieve a lasting fame;
You have set them on a pinnacle, in your memory kept them green,
it was the finest, cleverest team, that every you had seen.

But human only as a team they can’t always be on top,
And when sometimes you least expect they’ve got to take a stop.
Comparisons are odious e’er, but when a match you watch,
when one team is pressing all the time, a victory to snatch,

The other team, in desperate fix, score from a breakaway,
take both the point and laurel wreath alas, alack, a day.
To Red House Denaby came, to beat the County’s sterling team,
and win they did, though undeserved, “things are not what they seem”;

The County were the better side, of that there is no doubt,
the crowd they cheered, might and main, and encouraged by their shout;
The chances that the County had were numerous to relate.
They had hard lines, but could not score. Their shots were dogged by fate;

but Denaby did not lose heart, they plodded straight along,
they got a goal, two glorious points, and went home with a song.